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One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
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Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.
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O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?
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You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.
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It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.
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When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
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